Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-01-21

In consequence OF the west bOunt
passenger train on the Prairie du CHER
division of the c.. NJ. s. st. Paul roa(
being snow bound at Whitewater dur
ring portion of Monday afternoon
the train due here at $50 p. M. wa!
delayed at Milton until about l O'Clock
and did not arrive until Tuesday morn
ing at 6:20.
The forthcoming report of Secretary
Wright, of the state board of charlie:
and reform, shows that there are in
Wisconsin 2,647 insane persons under
public care. Fifty-four of these pa
tients belong to Iowa county; which is
one to every 425 inhabitants. Grant
has 81, one to 557; Lafayette 35. one
to SIS; Green So, one to 800; Richland
%, one to S77; Dane lis. one to sos
The State Journal reports that the
tobacco market is improving. Reports
from Edgerton are to the effect tina,
buyers have been unusually active dur
ing the past week, being out in search
of both the old and new crops. In one
instance about thirty acres of the new
crop were sold, the purchaser paying
| prices ranging from 5 to s cents.
| Around GAINESVILLE the work of sorting
and stripping has been considerably
| DELAYED on account of the very cold
weather that followed the holidays.
| Yet there has been marked activity
in the market.
At meeting recently held at Blan-
Lob a,Ix villa Vpb,, Mnlyanna Of NASanyrr
Iowa county, A. Blanchard, of Blan-
chardville, Lafayette county, and J.
c. Ulie, of York, Green county, were
appointed committee to confer with
different railroad companies with a
view of securing railroad facilities for
Blanchardville and vicinity. The com
mittee started out on their enterprise
on Monday morning. Mr.. McKenna
rode through the snow drifts to take
the train at this city, and was more
firmly convinced than ever before that
his section of country ought to have a
railroad.
A convention of the w. c. 7. L. for
the third congressional district of Wis
consin was held at Dodgeville on Tues
day and Wednesday of last week. The
district officers for the ensuing year are
as follows: President, Mrs. A. NJ. Pill
cher; Vice Presidents, Grant county,
Mrs. Hooper: Lafayette, Mrs. F. c..
Duncan; Iowa, Mrs. A. p. Cosens;
Green, Miss Mary Mather; Dane, Mrs.
Helen r. DIN; Cor. Secretary, Mrs.
Warren; Rec. Secretary, Mrs. Kurr;
Treasurer, Mrs. p. Eden. Lectures
were delivered by Rev. E. Z. Eaton, of
Madison, and Miss Amy C. Kellogg,
president of the state convention.
Leo Meunster, who went from this
city to Nebraska about three years ago
and settled near Beatrice, is home on
a visit to his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Meunster He was caller at
The Democrat Office on Tuesday and
left us quite a curiosity in the shape of
a pair of monster ears of the jack rabbit
The ears of this animal are generally
of a pretty good size, but the pair laid
down by Mr.. Meunster are uncommon
ly large. The rabbit which wore them
must have have been a thoroughbred
short horn, or at least a high grade.
Mr.. Meunster reports the country
around Beatrice as wonderfully pro-
ductive and improving rapidly.
The chairmen of the standing com
mittees of the Assembly are as follows:
Judiciary, II. l.. Humphrey, st. Croix;
bills on third reading, Frank Challoner,
Winnebago; ways and means, Il. W.
Jackson, Shawano; federal relations,
Hugh Porter, Crawford; education, J.
C. Bartholf, Rock; railroads, J. C. Rey-
nolds, Walworth; insurance and bank
ing, q. a. Knapp; state affairs, w. j.
McElroy, Milwaukee: cities, j. r.
Brighton, Milwaukee; privileges and
elections, w. A. Lasalle, Waushara;
interpretations, Charles Hall, Oconto;
taxes, G. A. DreutZer, Door; lumber,
A. s. Mcdonald; public prOvements,
Daniel shaggy, Vernon; militia, J. 3.
Mccoy, Grant; agriculture, G. G.. Cox,
Iowa; town and county organizations,
II. c. Hetzell, Lincoln; roads and
bridges, r. NJ. Day, Grant: public lands,
c. f. Mohr, Columbia; medical, J. C.
Reynolds, Walworth; claims, John
Luchsinger, Green; charitable and pen
al institutions, j. w. Perkins, Adams;
printing, NJ. l.. Hineman, Monroe.
The Monroe Sentinel of Wednesday
says that last Saturday morning, while
men were engaged in warming some
dynamite in pans over the stove, in
one of the shanties on the Mckinney
sub contract, on the Dunlap grading,
near Orangeville, the dynamite, which
does not explode except by conclusion,
caught fire. The men lost their heads
and left the shanty pell-mell. There
were twenty eight kegs of blast powder
in the apartment, which may account
for the unwillingness of the men to
stay by. The dynamite got in its work
unmolested. 1t blazed higher and
higher aud finally set the shanty on
fire. This ignited the black powder
and-well! During the process of dy-
Mantle to powder and powder back to
dynamite, which was rather slow, con-
sidering the provocation and opportu-
nifty it had to 90 off-a man being
warned by the fugitives from the shan
ty, thought of his team of horses, in
the stable near the burning shanty, and
at the risk of his life. went boldly up
and got them out and away, just in
time to hear the explosion of the pow
der. The conclusion set off the dyna-
mite and then there was terrific noise.
Things were torn to shreds and splin-
tiers, and bedding dishes, &c, filled the
air. Luckily no lives We're lost. Had
the men followed the rule in warming
dynamite, there would have been no
such accident.